Dry October

[Sid]

Its been an amazing October really shorting the winter. Its drier here than it has been all summer. How long before its officially a drought?

 

[Hilly]

Aye, been the best october i can remember, if novemebr is the same the cows are staying out !

Its been an amazing October really shorting the winter. Its drier here than it has been all summer. How long before its officially a drought?

 

[Jerry]

Its been an amazing October really shorting the winter. Its drier here than it has been all summer. How long before its officially a drought?

Ploughing and rolling today. Dust flying behind the rolls and must have been near 16 degrees. Sun most of the day.

Just need another 3 days and will be drilled up and ready for winter.

 

[Bullring]

Monthly forecast for the whole of November look dry and coldish, no doubt we will pay for it come March and April.

 

[Wombat]

It's lovely, first day we have seen the sun though for about a week as its been very cloudy and overcast this week

 

[Pan mixer]

Virtually no rain here in October,
Hardly any in September and August and the second half of July,

Been feeding cows out for 3 months now, they have eaten half a winters worth so far.

 

[two-cylinder]

We've stopped drilling wheat due to lack of moisture.
This autumn reminds me of 1985 exactly the same for us here.
Patchy germination resulted and we pulled some up in spring '86!

Weather broke about 15th Nov in '85.

 

[Pan mixer]

We've stopped drilling wheat due to lack of moisture.
This autumn reminds me of 1985 exactly the same for us here.
Patchy germination resulted and we pulled some up in spring '86!

Weather broke about 15th Nov in '85.

Yes, 1985 was similar, a friend reminds me that the weather broke in December and then froze the next day, I was newly married at the time and didn't notice.

 

[The Agrarian]

I just smashed this little beauty into cobblesView attachment 415210That's a 10" adjustable sat on top, for some scale!

Is a power harrow of no use to you guys?

 

[bovrill]

Is a power harrow of no use to you guys?

Dry clods here laugh in the face of a power harrow!

Next step is roll, then wait for some moisture. I will have a little go with a Dynadrive in a day or two, just to see what it does.

 

[beltbreaker]

Was round neighbours fodder beet, turnips Gorilla kale and stubble neeps, we couldn't work out why the slightly later drilled kale was going yellow until I pulled out a root of each. They ars drilled in sand and the late sown tap roots were only 6 inches where the stuff drilled 3 weeks earlier were 12 inches, the fields were droughting.

15mm today and there is a foot of gutters round the feed rings, one batch of cattle in and another tomorrow, and so the drudgery starts for another 180+ days,

Its been a great spell though, on the subject of 1985, it was wet all through June, July, August and September. It killed our 2 year old MF565 combine, near bankrupted 2 neighbours. We finished cutting peas with a neighbours Senator terrible year for anyone in Scotland. Whats worse was I'm remembering taking the bagged silage out of the bags, brown, horrible stuff but the cows ate it.

Cheers BB

 

[jondear]

Its been an amazing October really shorting the winter. Its drier here than it has been all summer. How long before its officially a drought?

It must be dry if you say your dry .We had that 18mm only 10 days ago .It's been a cracking time really .Just still seem to have a thousand jobs to do before winter comes properly!

 

[Still Farming]

Dry November now ?

 

[Clive]

Was quite moist while we were drilling

Much dryer now, glad we did drill when there was more moisture as crops and through quickly and are now doing ok on heavy dews and morning mists

 

[Hilly]

We've stopped drilling wheat due to lack of moisture.
This autumn reminds me of 1985 exactly the same for us here.
Patchy germination resulted and we pulled some up in spring '86!

Weather broke about 15th Nov in '85.

Was 85 not the year it rained everyday and bankrupted alot of farmers ?

 

[bovrill]

Was 85 not the year it rained everyday and bankrupted alot of farmers ?

'87 was the really wet, horrible year here. Rained all summer, then got a bit windy in the autumn.

 

[Hilly]

'87 was the really wet, horrible year here. Rained all summer, then got a bit windy in the autumn.

Was that the autum the weather man said it wasnt going to be windy and every tree in england blew over ?

 

[bovrill]

Was that the autum the weather man said it wasnt going to be windy and every tree in england blew over ?

That's it.
The weather man, quite rightly, said there won't be a hurricane, but it will be a bit windy.
And there wasn't a hurricane, but it was a bit windier than he'd said.
And all the trees fell over. And a new row of electricity poles here.

 

[Wombat]

still nice and dry if its like this still here in March it will have been a good winter. A nice cold, dry winter would be appreciated.

 

[Clive]

Was 85 not the year it rained everyday and bankrupted alot of farmers ?

2000 is the one I recall - we were growing a lot of potatoes and still (hopelessly) trying to get them out the ground at Christmas, the last 150ac never did come out. We only got 80ac of wheat drilled as well that year and that was paddled in

2012 second worse I recall

85 bit before my time really and we had a dairy back then so it was probably good for grass growth !